Usually means: Lying under oath in court.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. perjury: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. perjury: Merriam-Webster
  3. perjury: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. perjury: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. perjury: Collins English Dictionary
  6. perjury: Vocabulary.com
  7. Perjury, perjury: Wordnik
  8. perjury: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. perjury: Wiktionary
  10. perjury: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. perjury: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. perjury: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. perjury: Dictionary.com
  14. perjury: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. perjury: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Perjury (film), Perjury: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Perjury: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. perjury: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. perjury: Rhymezone
  20. perjury: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. perjury: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. perjury: FreeDictionary.org
  23. perjury: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. perjury: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. perjury: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. perjury: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. perjury: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Perjury: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  9. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  10. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. perjury: Legal dictionary
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perjury: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Perjury: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perjury: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (law) The deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath.

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